Noah Baumbach's autobiographical divorce tale "The Squid and the Whale" is more realistic and therapeutic than entertaining or insightful.
11:04 AM Nov 22nd from web
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The Wire season 2: this 12 hour feature film entwines you in overlapping nets, then leans on exposition to tie it up & cut free in 2 hours.
7:42 PM Nov 19th from twitterrific
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Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" is a fiction about fiction portraying fiction within blurred fiction searching for reality & truth.
10:44 PM Nov 8th from twitterrific
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Sean Ellis' "Cashback" (2006) cunningly adapts cinema's temporal nature to freeze time in this reflective and timeless supermarket romance.
9:30 PM Nov 6th from twitterrific
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John Turturro's sometimes-musical "Romance & Cigarettes" feels disjointed, like an experimental student film with a stellar cast.
7:17 PM Nov 6th from twitterrific
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long takes sculpt the human landscape of "Big Night" (1996), painted by a cast pulling us into each living moment, delicious and poignant.
7:08 PM Nov 3rd from twitterrific
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our executive talent has been steered back to a conventional interview setup. he's speaking naturally and comfortably.
6:26 AM Oct 30th from twitterrific
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upon request, setting up for an "interview" without an interviewer, talent to read his prepared answers off teleprompter - a dubious idea.
5:23 AM Oct 30th from twitterrific
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"Snow Angels" (2007) lulls you into the boredom of commonplace failures and stilted lives, to personally involve you in ordinary tragedy.
8:26 PM Oct 28th from web
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Studio Ghibli's "Grave of the Fireflies" (1988) is sweet tragic realistic impressionism, and no one's idea of an after school cartoon.
12:18 AM Oct 25th from web
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